“This is an autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicle designed to strike the coast of a potential enemy with a nuclear charge of increased power,” Izvestia quoted him as saying.
Korotchenko added that Poseidon is a means of deterrence and a weapon of retaliation.
He stressed that the device can deliver a nuclear charge to any range thanks to a nuclear power plant.
The expert added that the launch depth excludes the possibility of intercepting the object.
Earlier it became known that the first Poseidon nuclear torpedo ammunition for the Belgorod special-purpose nuclear submarine (NPS) was manufactured.